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Whitney Young Jr. served as president of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1965. He was in charge of both increasing the organization's size and racial integration. Young, chastised for his methods, may have drowned on March 11, 1971. Whitney M. Young Jr. was born in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky, on July 31, 1921. His parents ran the Lincoln Institute, an African American prep school, and his mother taught. Then a teacher, he served in WWII as a bridge between black and white troops overseas. Margaret Buckner, Young's college sweetheart, married him in 1944. Young was a close adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson and had access to the White House. In 1968, Young was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his Domestic Marshall Plan, which influenced the president's policy. Young died on March 11, 1971, in Lagos, Nigeria, while attending a conference. He may have drowned while swimming at a beach. (At first, the Nigerian coroner's office claimed Young died of a cerebral hemorrhage.) A biography of the leader by Nancy Weiss and another by Dennis C. Dickerson, Whitney M. Young Jr. and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1989). In 2013, PBS aired The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Civil Rights Fight. #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #WhitneyYoung #CivilRightsLeader #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR2D5b4Bw7u/?utm_medium=tumblr

Black History Fact: Robert C. Weaver was the first black man to serve on a president's cabinet in 1966. Under Obama, Eric Holder became the first black attorney general, and Susan Rice became one of the youngest as well as the first black female ambassador to the United Nations. #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #RobertWeaver #SusanRice #EricHolder #BlackCabinetMember #BlackAttorneyGeneral #BlackFemaleAmbassador #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRUEW2lhoZ6/?utm_medium=tumblr

Black History Fact: Nelson Mandela was a South African politician, philanthropist, and social activist who served as the country's first black president from 1994 to 1999. Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. protesting South Africa's racist policies. July 18, 1918, Mvezo (Transkei) was when and where he was born. Rolihlahla Mandela was his birth name that means "tree limb pulling" in Xhosa, but also "troublemaker." Mandela graduated from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa's only Black-only residential university, in 1939. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years in 1962. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. South Africa held its first democratic elections on April 27, 1994, thanks to Mandela and de Klerk. President Clinton was sworn in on May 10, 1994. Nelson Mandela ended apartheid in South Africa in June 1999. He married 3 times and had 6 kids. Mandela died in his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 5, 2013, at the age of 95. Mandela was briefly hospitalized in Johannesburg in early 2012 after contracting a lung illness in January 2011. He underwent surgery for a stomach condition. #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #July26th #NelsonMandela #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRzfR69hsQg/?utm_medium=tumblr

Black History Fact: Even at the age of eighteen, Katherine Johnson graduated from college. She oversaw NASA's calculations that put astronauts in orbit in the 1960s and on the moon in 1969. There was a book and film about Johnson's story that year. Johnston began teaching math and French in the late 1930s. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics hired "computers" in 1952 to perform and double-check technological calculations. Johnson was hired at Hampton's Langley Research Center. Johnson surprised her superiors with her curiosity and boldness. "The women did as instructed." “They didn't ask any questions.” A human into space was one of Johnson's tasks when NACA reformed into NASA in 1958. The following year, she remarried Navy and Army commander James A. Johnson. "The early trajectory was a parabola," Johnson said. In the beginning, they stated where they wanted the capsule to fall. 'Allow me.' Numerous awards were given to Johnson. His achievements include the NASA Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft and Operations team award in 1967 and the National Technical Association's Mathematician of the Year award in 1997. Awarded honorary degrees from SUNY Farmingdale, Capitol College in Maryland, Old Dominion, and West Virginia University. Goble fathered Joyette, Katherine, and Constance Johnson. Johnson died on Feb. 24, 2020. She was 101. A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE... WAS SCIENCE ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS IN SCHOOL? WHAT IS ONE FOND MEMORY YOU CAN SHARE? Please like, comment, and share this post. Sharing is caring 😁 #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #KatherineJohnson #BlackScientist #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRy29Vmh5IX/?utm_medium=tumblr

Black History Fact: Steve Biko: Steve Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist and co-founder of the South African Students' Organization, which later evolved into the Black Consciousness Movement in the country. He co-founded the Black People's Convention in 1972. Biko was arrested several times for his anti-apartheid activism before dying on September 12, 1977, as a result of injuries sustained while in police custody. Biko co-founded the South African Students' Organization, an all-Black student organization dedicated to anti-apartheid resistance, in 1968, and later led South Africa's fledgling Black Consciousness Movement. Biko was elected SASO president in 1969. Three years later, in 1972, he was expelled from the University of Natal for his political activism. In the same year, Biko co-founded and led another Black activist organization, the Black People's Convention. This group would go on to become the BCM's main organization, gaining popularity across the country in the 1970s. In 1970, Biko married Ntsiki Mashalaba. The couple's two sons, Nkosinathi and Samora, were born later. Biko's children with Mamphela Ramphele, an ardent member of the Black Consciousness Movement, were daughter Lerato, born in 1974 and died of pneumonia at the age of two months, and son Hlumelo, born in 1978. Biko had a daughter with Lorraine Tabane in 1977, whom he named Motlatsi. #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #SteveBiko #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxc8vkBuoJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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